In Part 1 of the 24 Hours of LeMons Wish List, we yearned for such excellent racing machines as the Renault Fuego, the Ford EXP, and the Chrysler Cordoba. We’re hoping that prospective LeMons teams have taken note and are now searching for sub-500-buck examples of the fine machines that made the list, but perhaps you read Wish List Part 1 and decided that the Datsun F10 and Hyundai Scoupe just aren’t for you. No problem— we’re back with ten more cars yet to appear in LeMons for your team’s shopping list!

Pontiac Aztek
Can you believe that no LeMons team has ever raced a Pontiac Aztek? You can buy running ugly (that is, more ugly than stock) Azteks for scrap value or less, and you get 21st-century technology and 185 hp while still competing for a Class C trophy. That’s right, you heard right—the LeMons Supreme Court will put any Aztek in the same class as Mazda GLCs and Triumph Heralds!

Cadillac Catera

General Motors products have dominated the Index of Effluency, the top prize of LeMons racing, winning more IOE trophies than any other manufacturer. You’d think that this success would have led so many teams to run GM cars that we’d have seen everything the company ever wrought, but that’s not the case. We’ll follow up the Aztek with a few more of the General’s IOE-worthy products. Such as, say, the Cadillac Catera. It’s just shocking that no LeMons team has seen fit to race a Catera, given that it’s a rear-drive, IRS-equipped German-built sports sedan with a 200-horse DOHC V-6 under the hood. Yes, this thing was quite the factory hot rod—or not—but you can get runners for peanuts nowadays. And, hey, we’d probably put a LeMons Catera with the MGBs and Dodge Dynasties in Class C.

Cadillac Allanté

While we’re on the subject of Cadillacs, it turns out that we’ve never seen a LeMons Allanté. Pininfarina designed and built the bodies in Italy, and they were then flown to Detroit on a specially equipped 747—that’s how amazing the Allanté was. Sadly for owners, depreciation on these cars has been quite dramatic, but that’s good news for a LeMons team that wants to hit the race track in a Italo-Detroito convertible with V-8 power and Pininfarina good looks.

GM “Dustbuster” Minivans

Minivans have done quite well in the 24 Hours of LeMons; in fact, the handful of bimbo boxes we’ve seen on the race track have generally completed more laps than the typical Mustang, Camaro, Porsche 944, or Toyota Supra. And yet no “Dustbuster” van has ever touched a tire to a LeMons track. How can that be? The Oldsmobile Silhouette, Pontiac Trans Sport, and Chevrolet Lumina APV come with 60- and 90-degree GM V-6s, which means you can bolt the 240-horse Eaton-blown 3.8 out of a Pontiac Bonneville SSEi right in! Yes, a supercharged monster that looks like a cross between a Mars Orbiter and a handheld vacuum cleaner, complete with endorsement by Leonard Nimoy. What could possibly go wrong?

Sterling 800 Series

How would you like to race a car that combines British style with Japanese running gear? The Sterling 800 Series (among C/D‘s greatest flops of the past 25 years) featured genuine Rover luxury and the guts of the bulletproof Acura Legend, and running 825s and 827s sell for less than Tercels with connecting rods hanging out of the engine block. Sure, the Legend’s V-6 became orders of magnitude slightly less reliable with the addition of Lucas electrical components, but any LeMons team worth its salt should be able to rewire the whole thing over the course of a race weekend.

Subaru XT

The XT was a wild-looking Japanese sports car that came in front- and all-wheel-drive versions, with your choice of turbocharged four-cylinder or naturally-aspirated boxer-six engines. Think of the XT as the WRX of the 1980s, only lighter and better looking. With all that going for it, there’s no excuse not to race an XT. Yes, LeMons Subarus have shown an alarming tendency to blow head gaskets, and the lone SVX we’ve seen was even less reliable than the breakdown-a-minute Mitsubishi Starion, but it’s a small sample size!

Dodge Magnum

Before Chrysler slapped the Magnum name on a big 21st-century station wagon, even before Chrysler slapped the Magnum name on metric-designated 318 and 360 V-8 engines, there was the original Dodge Magnum. This mean-looking B-body, based on the same platform used by the General Lee Charger and countless other Chrysler products of the 1960s and 1970s, came with one of the most disco-fied grille-and-headlight treatments in Detroit history. Just look at it! Your team could—and should—be the first to race a Magnum in LeMons.

Eagle Medallion

The Fuego isn’t the only Renault that’s overdue for a LeMons appearance. The Eagle Medallion, a.k.a. the AMC-ized Renault 21, was sold for a few years by Chrysler after it gobbled up AMC in 1987. That means that quite a few of these fine race cars are still roaming American streets today. Class C!

First-Gen Honda Civic

The Civic has been through nine generations in its history, and we’ve seen at least one example of each of the second- through eighth-generation Honda subcompacts competing in the 24 Hours of LeMons. It seems strange, then, that no LeMons team has ever raced the Civic that started it all, the 1973–79 first-generation version. The early Civic weighed well under a ton, was relatively quick for its time, and yours could get even faster when you swap in a late-’80s D engine, which we’re sure you could fit into a LeMons budget, no sweat.

Volkswagen Dasher

The VW Dasher, a.k.a. the first-generation Passat, was the first water-cooled Volkswagen to be sold in the United States. Such history! It’s not easy to find Dashers (or its Audi twin, the Audi 80/Fox) these days, what with the fact that most of them became heaps of red powder within hours of encountering road salt, but perhaps your team could unearth one in a land that rust forgot, like, say, New Mexico.